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School last year ended, and school this year started... and yet the blog remained unchanged.
Why? You might ask (go with me on this one -- go ahead and ask)

Your first thought may be that I've plum run out of musings, I have life figured out and no need to ponder any longer.

I hate to admit it, but the opposite is true. I've been dealing with more confusion and frustration than ever before in my life (given, it's not been that long of a life just yet).
I'm ashamed to admit, that I allowed myself to get to the point where I was consumed with my life and my decisions to be made. I dwelt on all that was wrong rather than embracing all that could go right.


In the past year I learned (the hard way)

Universal Truth Number Twelve
Smile A Lot

Life is too short to put up with the ache -- too short to sink into the difficulties dealt to you -- too short to not smile.
Because as you smile, you fight back against all the bad that is attacking you. As you smile, you tell your problems that you're too tough to give in.
Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with recognizing how incredible you are for taking on so much -- but when you smile in the face of all that you're taking on, you're that much more likely to conquer it.

Pull yourself up by your boot straps, appreciate all the wonderful things that are going on (or at least the terrible things that aren't) and smile a lot.
It won't be easy. At times it won't be fun.
But when you refuse to let go of the little joys in your life, eventually the little joys will regain their hold in your life, growing into full-blown bliss.